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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-12-01
The Great AmCl

The Great American Disease, Dyspepsia.
Americans as class eat as much oil with
their salads as did the Venetians in the time
of Medicin said John Chamberlin to jour
nalist the other day.. "But it took great
many years to overcome their Puritanical
preiudces In the minds Of the descendants
Of the Puritans there was strong but I'M
conscious association between Catholicism
and French cookery, and oil being extern
sively used by the French in the preparation
of their food these descendants, like their
ancestors, had a strong aversion for it, The
Puritan WAS never SO happy as when he was
uncomfortable. They imagined that TO de
serve heaven hereafter they were obliged to
live in sort of modified hell on earth They
rightly concluded that dyspepsia was the best
representation of the tortures of the bottom
less pit, and the surest way to contract il
was to eschew oil in their salads. This is
the true origin of the American disease. dys-
pepsia.
"Salads when properly prepared are the
most enjoyable part of dainty dinners. They
are cooling to the stomach. They assist di-
gestion. which is often needed after dinner
of heavy Joints and side dishes They re-
lieve the feeling of fullness 50 often com
planned of by fast eaters, and their prepara-
ton at table animates conversation When
bathed in pure olive oil they become natures
choicest gifts Dyspepsia and cranky, idiotic
ideas are unknown to the lover of well
made salad. New York Evening Sun.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-12-01
rhe "r.lrhtninr Cnlonlator.n

was much interested during recent visit
to the exposition by an adding machine
leftly manipulated by young man with
the most astonishing results. 1t may be all
right, but it will never, to my notion, sue
coed the present system of attaining the to.
tai of column of figures. For century
past the world has been given ''lightning
calculators" and glib tongued men have
stood on the corners and with blackboard
and chalk have shown how the work
of the plodding accountant can be re-
duced from hours almost to seconds. Yet
what business house or bank would for a
minute retain bookkeeper or accountant
in its employ who depended upon one of
these seemingly brilliant schemes to quick
resultss l have known mon who could run
up three rows of figures at time, but
never knew one yet who, after having done
so, did not, with proper regard to his own
responsibility for any accruing errors, run
over the three columns in the old fashioned
way of put down the l and carry the to be
sure that the first result 'proved. "-Ac-
countant in Globe-Democrat
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-12-01
CITY Horses at Dinner.

OF all the barbarously stupid and wasreful
contrivances man has invented the nose bag,
out of which harnessed horses take their din
ners, is the most ridiculous. Opposite my
window as l write is a row of dozen express
wagons drawn up in front of the office. The
horses are chasing their oats about in the
depths Of their nose bags or tossing three
quarters of their dinner away in their effort
to capture the other fourth part Of it. The
street in front of them is strewn with oats
enough to sow a crop from. The poor beasts
are tantalized half out of their wits and have
lost part of a necessary meal, and no one is
the gamer but the spaTTows. II would not
seem difficult to invent a trough to rest on
the shafts or pole of a wagon, and so feed the
horses at their ease. The more sagacious of
the brutos give hint at this themselves, for
YOU will often see them resting the bag on
the pole or shaft in order to get at the low
tide of grain within, which, by the way, may
be taken to show once more that horse sense
has points in it worth human consideration
and adoption-Alfred Trumble in New York
News
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-12-01
urn ,rnter Of Denbtful ouaIlty.

As the country becomes older, wells which
formerly yielded good water are becoming
unreliable, and late in the season furnish
water of doubtful quality. This fact is well
understood in cities where artificial supplies
of water replace that from wells. The same
i1npurity in the water doubtless exists in
many country wells, and is the cause of sick
ness and death at this season Of the year If
the well is low have it cleaned out. This
should be done wherever possible every two
or three years. Most people will be surprised
at the amount Of impurities to be found in
old wellg whose water they may for years
nave been drinAIllg. IL .ns w d ae,er geus
low enough &c be cleaned out its water
should be filtered before being considered fit
for home use.-BostGn Budget.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-12-01

cures nausea, weakness of stomach, indi'
gestion, bloating and eructations of gas.
As a soothing and strengthening
nervine," Favorite Prescription Is un-
equalled and is invaluable in allaying and
subduing nervous excitability, irritability,
exhaustion, prostration, hysteria, spasms
and other distressing, nervous symptoms
commonly attendant upon functional and
organic disease of the womb. 1t induces
refreshing sleep and relieves mental anx-
iety and dependency.
DIR. Pierce's FaVOrite Prescription
is legitimate medicine, carefully
compounded by an experienced and sldllful
physician, and adapted to woman's delicate
organization. 1t is purely vegetable in its
composition and perfectly harmless in its
effects in any condition of the system.
"FavOrite Prescriptions Is posi-
tive cure for the most complicated and
obstinate cases of leucorrhea, or whites"
excessive flowing at monthly periods, pain
full menstruation, unnatural suppressions
prolapsus or falling of the womb, weak
back, female weakness" anteversion, re-
troversion, bearing-down sensations, chron-
ic congestion, inflammation and liberation
of the womb, Inflammation, pain and ten
derness in ovaries, accompanied with in
ternal heat"
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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-12-01
a Chrouio Tendency Oyercome.

Many persons are troubled with a chronic
tendency to constipation. They are of bilious
temperament. The complaint to which they
hre subject, though easily remediable by
5udicious treatment, is in many cases aggra-
Rated by a resort to drastic purgatives and
|cholagogues. AS the human stomach and
bowels are lined with delicate membrane,
land not with vulcanite, they cannot stand
prolonged drenching with such medicines
without serious injury. Nothing restores and
an habitual tendency to constipa-
tion so effectually as Hostetter's Stomach
|Bitters. Its laxative effect is gentle and pro-
gressive. 1t neither convulses nor weakens
panied by gripping pains 1t arouses the liver
when the organ Is sluggish, promotes diges-
tion and encourages appetite and sleep. For
fever and ague, kidney troubles, nervous COM
plants, and incipient rheumatism, it is incom-
parable. Take wineglass before meals and
see how soon you will relish them.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-12-01
ABUSE OF THE TOOTH PICK.
An Unobjectionablo Little Instrument
When Used at Proper Times.

An Unobjectionablo Little Instrument
When Used at Proper Times.
The tooth pick when used with discretion
and at proper times and in proper places, is
an unobjcctionable little instrument. Its
occasional employment is, as a rule, neces-
sary TO cleanliness and the preservation of
the teeth. So, also, is the use of the tooth
brush This adjunct of the toilet is, however,
never used in public. The person who, after
pertaking of a meal, should proceed to pub
lcly use his tooth brush would speedily find
himself banished from decent society. Yet
such action would he less Objectionable to
witness than the service to which some peo-
pie who pretend to refinement and culture
put the tooth pick. There is but one place in
which it may be rightly used-the dressing
room-and no person who has the slightest
consideration for the feelings of others will
handle it anywhere else.
1t would seem to be almost unnecessary to
make such statements as those in the fore
going paragraph. No one possessing any
delicacy of feeling or squeamishness of diges-
ton will dream of controverting them. And
yet the public use of the tooth pick is daily
increasing, and has already reached proper
tions that strike the foreign visitor with
establishment and disgust, and make the
lives of many of our citizens anything but
agreeable.
The practice has doubtless grown owing to
the large number of people who live or have
lived in hotels and boarding houses, where
toothpicks were furnished with the idea that
guests would take them to their rooms, and
in some of the good hotels guests can even
now only procure toothpicbs at the doors by
which they leave the dining rooms. In other
hotels and in many boarding houses, and
also, it is sad to have to write, in some pri-
vate houses, the toothpick holder is regular
ornament q of the meal table, and its con-
tents are assiduously worked.
In no other country that the writer has
ever visited have toothpicks been publicly
used in private houses or in the presence of
aomen. An English woman or French
woman of the better class not only never
dreams of using toothpick before people,
but she considers it something that it is more
pleasant not even to mention. Here, how
yer, it is no uncommon occurrence to hear a
lady ask for the toothpicks, and select one
that she thinks will fit her needs.-The
| EnOch
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-12-01

The treatment of many thousands of cases
of those chronic weaknesses and distressing
ailments peculiar to females, at the lnyalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y,
has afforded vast experience in nicely
adapting and thoroughly testing remedies
for the cure of woman's peculiar maladies.
DIR. Plerce's FaVOrite Prescription
Is the outgrowth, or result, of this great
and valuable experience. Thousands of
testimonials, received from patients and
from physicians who have tested it in the
more aggravated and obstinate cases which
had baffied their skill, prove it to be the
most wonderful remedy ever devised for
the relief and cure of suffering women. 1t
is not recommended as cure-all," but
as most perfect Specific for womans
peculiar ailments.
AS q powerful, inVigOrating tonic,
1t imparts strength TO the whole system,
and to the uterus, or womb and its APP
pendages, in particular. For overworked,
s'worn-out," rundown" debilitated teach
ers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses,
"shop-girls," housekeepers, nursing moth
ers, and feeble women generally, DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the great
est earthly boon, being unequalled as an
appetizing cordial and restorative tonic. II
promotes digestion and assimilation of food,
Address, WORLDS DISP
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-12-01
THE OUTGROWTH OF A VAST EXPERIENCE

In pregnancy, " Favorite Prescription"
is n mothers cordial" relieving nausea,
weakness of stomach and other distressing
symptoms common to that condition. II
its use is kept up in the latter months OF
CESSATION, 1t so prepares the system for de-
livery as TO greatly lessen, and many times
almost entirely do away with the aufferings
of that trying ordeal.
"FavOrite PrescriptiO n,v when taken
in connection with the use OF DIR. Pierces
Golden Medical Discovery, and small laxa-
tive doses of DIR. Pierce's Purgative Pellets
little Liver Pills., cures Liver, Kidney and
Blndder diseases. Their combined use also
removes blood taints, and labolishea cam
cerous and scrofulous humors from the
system.
medicine for women sold, by druggists,
under a positive guarantee, from the
manufacturers, that IL will give satisfac-
ton In every case, or money will be re-
funded. This guarantee has been printed
on the bottle-wrapper, and faithfully car
ried out for many years. Large bottles
Q00 doses) $780, or six bottles for
$500.
Ia1- Send ten cents i'm stamps for DIR.
Pierce's large, illustrated Treatise Geo
pages) on Diseases of Women.
}. 663 Main Street, BUFFALO, N. Y.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-12-01
Destruction by salt Mining.

The extensive subsidences Of Northwich,
Eng. according to Mr. Thomas Ward, have
no other cause than the pumping Of brine for
the manufacture Of white salt The upper
bed of salt lies beneath about fifty yards OF
mari: the lower bed. separated from Il first
bv ten wards of mari, is over thirty yards
thick The sinking was first noticed in l1iOr
a century after the first discovery Of salt, and
has progressed rapidly since Much property
has been dcs,loyed. and large lakes have
boon for7ped-one having an area OF lOO
acres and all depths up 70 forty-iiye feet
Arkansaw Traveller.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-12-01
A LEGENDARY TALE.

1t is reported that once upon a time a
farmer working in the field felt sense of
vacuity which frequent tightening of his
belt would not relieve. He went on till he
could wait no longer, and from wondering
why his spouse had not brought him his Gus
tomary meal he worked himself up into a
rage at her negligence He decided to go
and investigate the matter, and on the way
he took the precaution of selecting a good
club for any necessary use such as clubs may
be put to- Searching his house, he espied his
wife living on a mat with her baby in her
arms, apparently both asleep. "Ah hal" he
cried, "this is the way you loiter around
while work in the field till my belly has
vanished. I'll teach you thing or two
With which he struck her a sound blow,
which only resulted in iolting the babe from
the breast and disclosing a drop of blood
where milk should have been.
The emaged farmer was startled He
forgot his anger as he saw that his little
family lay dead before him. He went to eX-
amining the apartment and under a chest he
found lot of blood and the half of a snake,
with cat still eating at the living head and
upper portion of the body The snakes head
still Jumped about and the fangs darted out,
keeping the cat busy to keep out Of the way.
But the jumping head had struck the sleeping
mother and the deadly fangs had pierced her
flesh, sending the poisoned blood into the
nursing infant, killing them both. Since
that time cats are not kept in the country,
and are but seldom seen in the cities. When
seen they appear wild and run as if afraid of
their lives n Az in San Francisco
C,hrOnic1e
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which he prescrbes his pills poons assuming them
womb disorder The physician of the of suffering
patient better probably of the delay
like Dr. Pierces Favorte Prescription, directed TO the
distressing symptoms and nuug comfort instead of proonge
Is PHYSICIANS East 55Ss
l FAIEn I Having exhausted the skill of three ply
aAHHe. sicians. completely discouraged and so
weak could with difficulty the
began taking Dr. Perces Favorite Prescription and
using the local recommended in his Common Sense
Medical Adviser improve In three
months perfectly and have had trouble since.
letter to family briefly mentioning how
health had been restored offering send the full particulars
writing for them, enclosing stdmpeden
Tep have received four hundred letters.
reply described the treatment used,
and have earnestly advised them to do likewise From great
received letters thanks stating that they
the Favorte Prescriptions sent the
$3.50 required the Medical Adviser and had applied the
local treatment fully and plainly laid down therein and were
much better areadYh
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-12-01
TREATING THE WRONG DISEAS


Indifferent DOCTOR and distinct diseases
reality they only symptoms caused by
his practice until large bills The suffering
treatment complications medicine
entirely removed the disease thereby dspeng all those
misery
4 I- A Marvellous Cure Mrs. G. F. SPRAduk
4 female weakness, leucorrhea and falling Of the
0ET0RS womb for seven years 80 had to keep my bed
army Of different Physicians and spent large sums
of money but received lasting benefit AT last husband
persuaded to your medicines which oath to do
because was pejudced against them and the doctors said
they would do good finally told my husband that II
he would get me some Of medicines would try them
Fayorite Prespon also six bottles Of the Discovery for
Fnvote Prescription and have been sound woman for four
then the balance of the medicine to sister, who
troubled In the and she cured herself In short
time. have not had to take any medicine for almost
four years."
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ENTTRELY DIR PircP Of
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-12-01

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UHTOLD AGOHY
FROM GGTARRH.

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SICK HEADACHE.

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DR.. saec's Catarrh ]
lieve IL 10 be the 0
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Buffalo. N, Y,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-10-15

For SOME time it looked like
Mitchell county would have two candidates
in the race for tho Republican nomina-
ton for secretary Of state in 1888 Affairs
have been simpEfed by Hon. Lew j.
Best announcing that he will not be a
candidate. This, as far as that county is
concerned, leaves the field clear for Cap
tain Charles A. Norton, of Beloit An old
soldier Of recognized bravery, man.who
is serving his second term as the accom-
plished seargent-at-arms OF the Kansas
house Of representatives. and good man
on general principles, it is not strange
that he aspires to be secretary of state.
He may rest assured of receiving rous-
ing support in western Kansas, and his
acquaintance over the state will be apt to
result In his receiving the support OF dele
cation from central and eastern Kansas.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-10-15
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURREN
w .SIII,rcn,a,r Auu1nSt 18th 1873

OFFICE OF THE CoMPTRoLLER OF THE CURRENCY.
WASHINGTON, August 18th, 1887.
WHEREAS, by satisfactory evidence presented to
the undersigned, it has been made to appear that
'The First National Bank of Wa-Keeney," in
the City of Wa-Keeney, in the County of Trego and
of the Statutes of the United States required to be
complied with before association shall be author
lied to commence the business of Banking.
Now, THEREFORE, I, William L. Trenholm. Comp
troler of the Currency, do hereby certify that 1.-THE
First National Bank Of Wa-Aeeney," in the City OF
Wa-Keeney, in the County of Trego, and State OF
Kansas, is authorized to commence the business of
Banking as provided in Section Fifty one hundred
and sixty nine of the Revised Statutes of the United
States.
In TESTIMONY WHEREOF witness my hand and seal
[sEAL Of Office this 18TH day of August 1887.
VI. L. TRENHOLM,
Comptroller of the Currency.
No 377G 4A-10
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-10-15

A WaKeeney Institution Chartered.
"The Wa-Keeney Natural Gas and
Mining Company" was chartered under
the state law last week. Term, twenty
years. Capital stock, $4,000. Directors:
F. Danford, Hays City; Lee Monroe, Geo.
M. Ufford, John A. Nelson, James Kelly,
W. G. Marshall and d. Fl. Henkel.
The success of this scheme is matter
in which everybody here should feel an
interest. Putting it in another way, the
success of this scheme is to the interest of
everybody here, regardless of whether he
appreciates the fact. Ground in which to
conduct the prospecting is to be leased.
Those owning land adjoining the town
site should not hesitate to lease some of
their ground for this purpose. If the
proper generosity is exhibited in this di-
rection, the work of the company will be
expedited materially. AS yet, the funds
subscribed do not aggregate the amount
which is required for the safe prosecution
of the work. Wa-Keeney. people who
have at heart the best interests of the
town, and FER Sc of themselves, should as
sist in this prospecting. If any valuable
deposits are found, the shareholders in
his company will be fortunate. They
will share directly the profits of the
company, and indirectly they will have
been the means of increasing the value of
every foot of real estate in this vicinity.
If nothing is found, then what? The spir-
it of inquiry will have been satisfied, and
our people will be able to turn their at
tention in other directions, untrameled by
the fear that they are erring in not being
at work in prospect holes. We believe
valuable deposits will be found in this
locality, but are willing to look at both
sides of the case.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-10-15

Captain David Fouts took a carload
of cattle to Kansas City last week. He
found the market so low that he would
not sell. He left them there for rise.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-10-15

The Leavenworth Times Is fret
ting because President Cleveland passed
Lincoln's tomb without stopping to pay
any tribute to the nations martyr That
paper seems to have been taking CleVe-
land himself for an abolition martyr!